Fieldnotes
the assembly of turbines hangs
off the elbow of the mountain range
wishing wishing missing missing
seething whispers to be received
by the motion-stopped trees
on the other side of the valley
beyond the fault line’s fissures
summoning some shrubs not others
logic streaks itself across desert
the way blood stains flee bullet wounds
can you scan it from above can you
scan desert like the dark eyes
like the dark-eyed junco did
ask the motion-stopped trees
if this is what it means to have a body
to grow into then out of
the form that says yes
the motion-stopped trees are data
database of summaries of moments
when a body said no
when the body transposed
began to shout another trunk up
or roar into a foreign branch
wounding roots winding angles
shifting sightlines so that
a sun that once slid out of sky
might now skid across the top
of a neighboring rock formation
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